In this episode of The Med-Tech Talent Lab, Mitch Robbins sits down with Jim Miller, Global Leader of Talent Acquisition at Rochester Electronics, to explore what three decades in recruiting have taught him about hiring people instead of resumes.

Jim answered a blind ad in the Sunday Boston Globe and made his first placement, a technical writer at Digital Equipment Corporation, before building a career that ran through Fidelity during the Y2K build-out and talent leadership roles at GE, Raytheon, WEX and L3Harris. He explains why understanding the business matters more than recruiting technique, why he only hires relationship recruiters, and why your reputation follows you far longer than your resume ever will.

The conversation also explores why hourly hiring has quietly become the hardest job in recruiting, the high school co-op program feeding Rochester's manufacturing floor, how the TN visa opened a talent pool most companies overlook, the hiring mistake he watches companies repeat, and his blunt take on where AI actually helps a talent team and where it simply doesn't.

Whether you lead talent acquisition, hire into manufacturing, or are building a career in recruiting, this episode offers practical insights on sourcing when every tool returns the same names, building trust across a team, and why the person responsible for your culture probably belongs closer to the CEO.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why understanding the business beats recruiting technique every time
• What made hourly hiring the hardest job in recruiting after 2021
• How a high school co-op program became a reliable manufacturing pipeline
• Why the TN visa opened a talent pool most companies overlook
• The hiring mistake companies repeat: recruiting to basic qualifications
• Where AI genuinely helps a TA team, and where Jim says it falls short
• Why relying on technology leaves recruiters waiting instead of working
• The trust test a mentor ran on Jim, and what it taught him about leading
• Why recruiting is sales, and why it rarely reports where it should

...and so much more!

Jim Miller on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmiller64/

Rochester Electronics on the web: www.rocelec.com